Topics Covered: This is a six-week workshop series designed to help people with cancer make the transition from active treatment to post-treatment care. Each session involves exercise and education and feature weekly guest experts. The faculty for this program is from the Abramson Cancer Center of The University of Pennsylvania. Participants must have completed treatment within the last 24 months to qualify and complete a physician's waiver. Please call (215) 879-7733, ext. 213 to register by September 30.

Oct 19, 2010 - Increased colorectal cancer screening programs aimed at targeting the pre-Medicare population appear to reduce costs associated with colorectal cancer treatment among patients aged 50 to 64 after they transition to Medicare at age 65, according to a study presented at the annual scientific meeting of the American College of Gastroenterology, held from Oct. 15 to 20 in San Antonio.